01-18-2006, 08:51 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Well, Manansala - unlike many Christians and even non-Christians - admits that Hitler and the Nazis were by and large Christians. American Christians would have you believe all the Nazis were dabbling in the occult (i.e. Eastern religions). The facts are that Hitler and 1/3 of Germany was Catholic, 2/3 of the country was Protestant, with only a very few being atheist or non-Christian. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Sorry for the digression but Hitler was not a Christian and neither were most of the top Nazi leaders, to Hitler and others religion was mostly unimportant (and sometimes even an impediment) to the rise of the Aryan race, they appreciated religion when it served the purpose of expanding the Aryan territory through conquests or when it gave rise to hatred of Jews as Christianity did, that is why the Protestant reformation founder Martin Luther was called the first Nazi and Hitler appreciated the fact that Christianity gave rise to such Jew haters but he was opposed to the Christian solution to the Jewish problem (conversion), to Hitler and the Nazis the Jews were a race and conversion would change nothing. It is absolutely true that the rise of Nazism was helped by the centuries of anti semitic propaganda by the Church but that was just one factor, the principal factor was ofcourse biological racism according to which certain races were inherently inferior. To conclude, the Nazis were mostly secular and some of them like Heinrich Himmler had their own weird views on religion (with Heinrich Himmler trying to start a new religion with Hitler as the savior).
Sorry for the digression but Hitler was not a Christian and neither were most of the top Nazi leaders, to Hitler and others religion was mostly unimportant (and sometimes even an impediment) to the rise of the Aryan race, they appreciated religion when it served the purpose of expanding the Aryan territory through conquests or when it gave rise to hatred of Jews as Christianity did, that is why the Protestant reformation founder Martin Luther was called the first Nazi and Hitler appreciated the fact that Christianity gave rise to such Jew haters but he was opposed to the Christian solution to the Jewish problem (conversion), to Hitler and the Nazis the Jews were a race and conversion would change nothing. It is absolutely true that the rise of Nazism was helped by the centuries of anti semitic propaganda by the Church but that was just one factor, the principal factor was ofcourse biological racism according to which certain races were inherently inferior. To conclude, the Nazis were mostly secular and some of them like Heinrich Himmler had their own weird views on religion (with Heinrich Himmler trying to start a new religion with Hitler as the savior).